A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

A Wild West saloon that helped define a generation of psychedelic rock.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

This small interfaith chapel lies not far from the rim of the Grand Canyon.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.